La Mère Germaine

In Avignon's old town near the Palais des Papes, this restaurant occupies a fifteenth-century merchant's house with vaulted stone ceilings and a narrow staircase connecting four floors. The kitchen maintains classical Provençal technique; dining rooms retain period features including original tiles and wrought iron. The venue holds 50 to 150 guests and situates celebrations within the compressed medieval urban fabric where every sight line has archaeological depth and the present rubs against five centuries of documented history.